Fun Times

Wow time has really flown by since my last post.  We have done so many things in that time!  We have been excitedly picking out different things for our house!  We should be moving in by August!  I almost can't believe its real.

We attended a Spring Festival at Central Delaware Christian Academy where Mikayla had a blast.  It was great to see some of my former Kindergarten students who are now finished with 3rd grade!  I can't believe how much time has gone by!  Mikayla also enjoyed jumping in a bounce house and riding a little train.  We convinced her to get her face painted for the first time.  She sat extra still and loved being a butterfly.  She cried when we had to clean it off before bed though

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Sandbox Fun

Tonight we went to our friends house for dinner.  After dinner Mikayla, Timothy and Noah headed outside to play in the sandbox.  I was unsure how Mikayla would do in sand.  She is hit or miss with being messy.  Well, she loved it!  She doesn't play in sand much though so she didn't have very good "sand etiquette", but we instructed her, and she caught on quickly.

After she was finished, we didn't want to load her up in the car covered in sand.  We decided to bathe her there.  She was unsure about a bath since she takes showers at home, but she loved it!  I had to wash and rinse her hair 3 times before I got all of the sand out!  We borrowed some pajamas and then she was all ready for bed.  It was lots of fun, but we didn't get any pictures :(.

Dinner with friends

Tonight we went to our friends' house for dinner.  The Bunch's have become fast friends of ours since our eventful trip to the National Zoo.  We arrived at their house just in time to eat dinner.  Mikayla and Audrey played outside for a little bit, but soon came in for food.

The adults enjoyed talking after dinner while the girls played so well together.  They stood giggling and laughing at everything!  We had so much fun.

Mikayla didn't want her picture taken

Visiting the Davis'

I decided to take a trip while Matt was gone for work.  He left Monday and is gone until Thursday night.  I haven't seen my cousin in over a year and she just had a baby.  I packed up the two girls and took a trip to see her and the baby.  It took us about two hours to get there, and Calli slept the whole way.  Mikayla on the other hand, talked to me for the entire two hours!  She helped keep me awake though. 

We spent the day with my cousin and her husband, and also their little baby boy, Colwyn.  Mikayla enjoyed her new surroundings quite a bit.  We stayed until after dinner and I was able to feed Calli.  We then headed home.  It was a great day of catching up with an old friend/cousin.  We decided we need to do that more often. 

National Zoo

We got up bright and early this morning to take a day trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C.  We left our house around 8 and traveled to the metro station.  We met our friends the Bunch's and we all rode on the train.  It took forever!  We had figured out that the train ride should take about 45 minutes and it took an hour and a half!  Audrey, Mikayla and Calli did pretty well considering the length of the trip.  Once we got into D.C. we had to walk uphill about 3 blocks to finally get to the zoo.

We crossed the street and walked into the zoo.  I think it was Kristi who looked at her watch and realized it was already noon time and that answered the question that we all had been asking...Why are we so hungry?  We found a couple of benches and all broke out our picnic lunch.  Boy was it good!

After lunch we began our hike through the zoo.  We saw zebra's and a cheetah first.  Then we continued on to the elephants.  We stood and watched them for quite a while.  We saw lots of other animals too.  After being at the zoo for a couple of hours, we all were ready to head for home.

We boarded the metro again and headed home.  When we got to the station where we had to switch trains, there were tons of people to push past to get out.  Rob, Kristi and I got out with no problem.  Once the three of us were out we turned to see Matt and Martha stuck on the train.  They were trying to push past people but were not being successful.  Matt managed to get his foot in front of the door to hold it open until he and Martha could shove out.  It was a little scary for all of us!

We finally made it back to our cars and headed home.  We stopped at Cracker Barrel to eat but it was a 45 minute wait.  We just wanted to get moving so we tried The Fisherman's Inn.  I called ahead and we were told 30 minutes.  Once we got there and checked in, it was another 30 minutes.  Needless to say, we should have just waited it out at Cracker Barrel.  We finally got home after 10:00pm.  What a crazy fun day.

Pizza Making!

Today we had a play date with Nolan and Alison Lynch. We decided to have a pizza making play date. Mikayla loves pizza so I have found a great and easy recipe for pizza dough. I brought the dough and the sauce, and Mrs. Lynch had the cheese and pepperoni. We played a little bit first and then put the kids in aprons and started the pizza making. Enjoy the pictures because we sure enjoyed making the pizza!